Coin-testing machine.



W. H. BEDDARD. L COIN TESTINGMACHINEL APPLICATION FILED OCT. 23, 1914.

. 1,187,240. PatentedJunelS, 1916.

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APPLICATION FILED OCT. 23, I914.

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' WILLIAM HENRY IBEDDABQ'OESIMAILHEATH, BIRMINGHAM, nnennnb.

Be i known that 1, WILLIAM DARD, subject ;of the King of Great-Britain,

residingat- 123 Waverley road, Small Heath,

Birmingham, England, have invented certain new 'and useful Improvements in Coin- Testing Machines, of which the following is a specification-.1

ThB'lIiVGIltlOIl provides a coin testing machine of improved construction, particularly suitable for testing coins before they are allowed to pass into an automatic coinop- .erated delivery machine. I The machine tests. coins as to character'of metal, and only passes-into the delivery mational'resistan'ce. The testing devices must work jwith accuracy, and the'chute down which-the coinjrollsfor'testing, and which is inclined .in two, directions, must bekept' parts of thebottom of the coin chute andclear of any rejected coins and rubbish. j

v vThe improvements hereinafter described. and. specifically claimed combine a comb1nation of improvedconstructional features whichmay be'employed in connection with features ofthe inventlon. disclosed in my pending application Serial No. 710,271 and the primary features of the combination are a movable leaning side to the coin chute to open the chute in the manner represented open said chute both byhand and automatically, a pusher-out to; forcibly clearthe chutev when said leaning side opens, and j pivoted and weighted members which form have fixed bearings in said bottom instead 0 movable or shifting bearings. The improvements will be clearly understood by the description hereinafter appearing with reference to the drawings, the transverse figures of which are correctly drawn as regards the transverse inclining ofthe coin chute, but the longitudinal figures of w ich are drawn looking straight-at the machine for convenience of illustration.

Figurel is an elevation of the one side. of e the coin testing machine. Fig. 2 is a side section of Fig. 1. Fig.3 is an elevation of the other side of the machine. Fig. 4 is a side 1 the move ent of which, as will .be hereinafsection of Fig. 3. I Fig. 5 is an underside view of the greater part of Fig. 1 Fig.6 is

' flip neation filed October 23, 1914. Serial mi. 868,319.

com-TESTING MACHIN the chute Fig; 7 is a similar front end ele- I Specification of Letters Patent. Patentedf'June 13, 1916.- I

vation as Fig. 6 but showing the diiferent position of some of the parts.'- :Fig. 8 is a section of Fig. .1 on the dotted lines A A. Fig. 9- is a section of Fig. 1 on the; dotted lines BB. Fig. 10'is a section of Fig. 1 on the dotted'lines C C. Fig; 11 is a section of side a, movable side 0, fixed bottom parts d and e, mo'vable bottom parts 16 and 21, fixed top parts "h and'i, movable topparts j andm, and inclined closed end 1. The coin chute therefore extends from the coin'slot 0 to the closed end n.

(a The movable side 0 is formed of two hinged'flaps c and c and these flaps'form thatside of the chute against which the. one face of the coin makes frictional contactin rolling down the chute, but saidjcoin' also ais alarge opening cut in the fixed side makes face'ffrictional contact with the sur- '80.

racer (which rigidly depends from, thefixed-top i' of the chute) if said coin rolls beyond the stop end i ofi said surface, it

being clear fromthe drawings thatthe inner face of the surface i is accurately-flush with the inner face of contact bars c and 0 rigidly carried upon the flap- 0 The flap swings from the fixed top z of the chute upon the pivots 0 and 07, and operates to by'Fig. 12,this flap being made to rigidly carry a pusher-out bar 0 working throughthe opening a in the fixed side a to push out a of the chute any coin or. rubbish whichmay at the time-become stationary therein. The flap'c is pivoted to the top k by the pivot pin k and at k (see :Fig. 3) is permanently connected tothe flap 0 by a pin and slot engagementso that when this flap swings to a position opening the chute, as shown by the dotted lines in'Figs. 7 and 8, the flap swings with it so that the whole of the movable side of the chute from the coin slot 0 to the closed endn is opened to allow anything stationary-in the chute to fallout, it being clearly understood that-this opening side ofthe chute is the leaning side for coins.

The flap c carrie s a rigid projection 0 from ter descri ed, said flap is moved to open the chute, 0 being a springv device to normally move the flap to close the chute.

The plate Z is a carryingv and attachment plate for the machine to rigidly secure it to a suitable casing such as Z Said plate Z carries the'coin slot '0 aforesaid and also a rotatable. spindle l fitted with a knob Z, a short arm Z and a longarm Z. The knob Z is for hand rotation, the short arm Z normally covers up a portion of the coin slot 0,

short arm Z is clear of the coin slot the flaps- 0 c fare fully 0 en, but before the coin has time to get who ly through the slot 0, and drop into the chute said flaps'have closed agaln, because the pawl Z has slipped off the projection c", after opening the flaps,

and allowed the spring-0 to quickly close.

the flaps again, the pawl Z moving back again to normal position around the back 0 rubbish, but the provision of the short arm of the projection 0. The long andshort arms Z l are returned to their normal positions immediately the coin has passed through the slot'o by the spring Z wBefore a coin is inserted into the coin slot 0 theknob Z may be turned by hand 'to make it quite sure that the coin chute is clear .of rejected coins or Z effects this automatically, and the action flaps 0 0 shall be closed.

of the pawl Z and the projections 0 make it quite sure that before the coin being put in through the slot 0 reaches the coin chute the The movable bottom parts 16 and 21 to the chute are each a pivoted member capable of being depressed against the operation of an adjustable resistant. The member 16 forms the bottom of the chute from the point P to f and is evenly pivoted at its ends f f in the fixed bottom parts 03 and e, so that the weight of a coin on it at any part in its length from f to f has the same effect as regards depressing it; The resistance to the depression. of said member 16 is a weight 7" which is adjustable to regulate the amount of weight required to depress said member.

struction to the member 16 butithis member 21 depresses to let all correct coinspass out of the chute at the point 3 into the delivery machine, or the like, whereas the member 16 would only in the case of anextremely heavy coin depressto such an extent as to let the The chute, and the resistant is in the form of an adjustable weight g, whilethe upward lift of the member at the active end is-limited by the stop projection 9 operating against a fixed part ofthe chute.- The pivots g g .of the member 21 must be opposite at the ends of said member exactly the same as in respect of the member 16. a

The" inner surface of the closed 'end n makes less than a right angle with the pivoted member 21 and a coin rolling onto said member'21 comes into. collision with said closed end and receives a downward blow tendingto force said-coin to depress the member 21 and pass out of the chute by the outlet :1 Between the edge i of the member 16 and the bar 0 of the flap 0 is aslot 1 shown clearly by Fig. 5,, to let very thin coins through the outlet 2,.thisfslot running for the full length of the member 16. The mo'vable'top parts j and m are each a delicate leaf spring to have a'wiping contact with the periphery of thecoin as it rolls down the chute with its leaning face frictionally contacting the flap 0 These two leaf springs are over the fixed'bottom part e of thechute. A free space 1' is left between the two leaf springs j and m so that thecoin is-freed' on its periphery as it passes from the leaf springs are carried by a bracket 8 detachably fitted as a part of the top ofthe chute. The

leaf springs j and m are set up to the bottom part 6 by the independent set screws 7' 721?, there being provided between each leaf spring and its particular set screw, an in-. terior bearing piece It for the end of the screw to operate against, distance piecesu and '0 being placed between the bearin pieces and the; leaf springs with the idea 0 preventing the ends of the set 'screws im-,

- pinging. directly upon the delicate leaf springs and to give a moredelicate adjustment. in setting up the leaf springs to the bottom part e of the chute.

The free space 1* and the additional leaf spring m are primarily for the rejection of an ill-shapen correct coin. if such is desired.

- An ill-shapen correct coin would be more or less elliptical and therefore it may be stated that it would have amajor-and a minor axis. If the. major axis contacted the first leaf springj the roll of the coin'wou'ld be stopped, but if the minor axis the. coin would be permitted'to roll, but would surelycontact the second leaf spring mby its major axis, and therefore its progress through the testing machine would-be stopped. j

The operation of the machine is as follows: It has to allow only a coin composed of the correctmetal alloy to pass through the pivoted member 2land it has to keep the. chute clear, and it will if desired reject a coin of the correct alloy-if same is ill-shapen on its periphery. The coin is put into the "slot 0 and first strikes against the fixed. shoulder *w which breaks the force putting the coin through the slot and allows'the coin. to start to roll from the bottompart d by gravity only. The size of the slot '0 pre-.

vents coins above. a certain diameter and thickness-being put into the machine at all. If when putting the coin into the slot 0 a there may be rubbish or another coin in the chute, said chute will a be automatically cleared by the flaps c 0 opening, but

quickly closing again when r the chute. 'is clear. Thecoin rolls from the bottom part d over the pivoted member 16 with its one face leaning in frictional contact with the flap 0 If the coin is'of suflicient diameter its leaning face frictionally contacts the bars 0* of, as shown by Fig. 9, sothat the coin canroll on, but if its diameter is insuflicient it will not touch the bar 0 and will fall sidewise to be stopped in rolling down the chute if it stayed on the pivoted-;member.l6 a

moment too long, the period of time taken 'for the coin to roll over the pivoted member 16 being consequent upon the amount of frictional face contact of the com wlth the bars 0*, 0 such frictional contact being.de-

pendent in degree upon the metallurgical character of the alloy of which the coin is 7 formed. If a coin be of the same weight, diameter, and thickness asthe correct coin but does not roll across the pivoted member 16 with exactly the same velocity as the cor-' I "rect coin it will be stopped in its travel by a slight depression of the pivoted member 16, which would mean that the alloy of-the coin was not the same as the correct coin,

and that therefore the coin.' is rejected. Weight is not ;so important n connectionwith the pivoted member-1621s velocity, for

the reas'on'that aworm" coin of the correct kind, and which islighter in weight than a new coin, will pass over the pivoted member 16 because it hasthe correct velocity in rolling over the pivoted member 16. Any

coin that depresses the pivoted member 16 to a'suflicient'extent isstopped inits travel,

and here it will be clearly understood that. a coin has thesame efiect from its weight. on the pivoted member 16 no matter what position it may for the moment be in, on said member 1-6; therefore coins too' little in diameter, too thin,- and too heavy, and not of the same metal alloy would be stopped by the pivoted member 16.

If an incorrect coin should pass thepivoted member 16it isnext tested by the leaf spring 7' which has wiping contact with the coins periphery at the same-time as'said coin is still rolling with. face frictional contact against the hinged flap 0 so that bythe leaf spring 9' a delicate test not vonlyas to diameter but as to whether the coin is rolling with sufficient If the coin isill-shapen on its periphery'it is of somewhat elliptical form having a major and minor axis, .and ifthe-major velocity .to passthe leaf spring j takes place.

axis contacted the leaf spring 7' the coin would be stopped, whereas if. the minor axis contacted theleaf spring 3' the coin would pass this leaf spring j but would be stopped by the leaf spring *m, th emajor axis-having at the time come uppermost by reasonof the free space between the two leaf springs.

The leaf springs j and 1;. therefore give .a velocity test, due to the character of the.

metal alloy, upon. the peripheryof-the coin,

and all coins not rolling-with the correct" velocity willnot' pass the lea'f isprings.

Assuming the coin 'has'pas'sed the leaf springs it. then has to belet' through the outlet g by the pivoted. member-[21; This pivoted member will not let the correct coin Y through by, weight alone; said correct coin. will comeinto collision with the closed end n-which,' dependent upon the velocity with which said coin strikes said end, will exert a downward pressure on the coin compellingit to pass through the pivoted member 21, said member 21 being set sothat it willv only. letthr ough it a coin which strikes the closedend n withsufiicient force and which "has sufficient weight. I

rejected and stopped on. the pivoted member 21. Every coin rejected by the machine is cleared from the chute b'ythe operation of the flaps 0 0 which form the leaning Manyjcoins will be' side of the chute, and provision would be made in. the delivery" machine to return'all. rejected coins to the person putting them in, so that if by accident a coin of greater value than ,the correct coin-was put into the machinethe person putting it in could get it returned by operatingthe knob Z.

Having now described myinvention what I claim and desire'to secure by 'Letters Patent is j' 1. In acoin'testingmachine, the combination of a transversely inclined coin chute, apair ,of longitudinally disposed leaf s rings arranged adjacent the top of said 0 ute in close association with one another.

but with an interval therebetween, said leaf I springs serving to arrest the travel alon sa d chute of coins which are deformed into elliptlcal shape, and means for ejecting laterally from the chute the coins arrested by said leaf springs.

It 2. In a com testing machlne, the comv saidchute movable-to open position -to lib? eratearrested coins, the side wall having upperand lower parallel contact rails to'be frictionally engaged by a side face of a coin moving through said chute," and a fixed stop depending from the fixed top of the chute flush with said rails, said stop projecting "a'cross: .the space between said rails whereby to arrest anycoin liberated from the upper.

rail'in' consequence of the depression of the 'bottom'f platform.

3. l fe coin testing machine, the combiati on, of atransversely inclined coin chute having anyenlarged entrance part, devices containedn sald chute for' arrestlng the v travel'of incorrect coins, ,a movable leaningj side tosaidchute to open to liberate arrested coins, said side comprising a pair offlaps,

one pivotally suspended adjacent the'chute. proper and; the other pivotally suspended adjacent.said enlarged entrance part with its pivot above the pivot of'the first flap,

and a pin-'and slot connection between said 'flaps, Wherebythe second flap is caused to -move pivotally with the first flap.

. 4. In a: coin testing machine, the combi- 'nation of a transversely inclined coin chute,

a movable leaning side to said chute to open to'liberate arrested coins, meansfo-r restormg sa d leaning side to normal posltion,

upward'extension beyond its pivot, and a .40 said leaning side having rigid therewith an,

spring held lever provided with a pawl for engagenient with said extension, said lever being operable against the tension of its spring to-engage its'pawl with said extension and efi'ect the "opening of said leaning side 5.- Ina coin testing machine, a trans: versely inclined chute ot a uniform width throughout its extent whereby the coin will roll from end to end thereof and having a I p'ivotslongitudinally' disposed at one side of saidchute said chute having an enlarged entrance end directly communicatingwith the coin-insertion-slot and provided at a point immediatelyin advance of said platform with, a. projecting shoulder which continuous bottom including as a a part I thereof a movable platform mounted on overhangs saidbottom and breaks the force of the coin upon its insertion in said chute,

thereby causing the coin to startits rolling movement along the platform by gravity only.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM HENRY BEDDARD. 'Vvitnessesf i G120. T,- Fussy,- D. LEAKE 

